Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-01-25

hall OF the Emmenthaler Hat, New
Street, Berne, conference OF the branches
OF Jesus Christ OF the Latter-day Saints,
to which we cordially invite all members
as well as friends OF the true Gospel.
Meetings: 10 a. m. and and p. III.
i. w. Schoenield." "a name not un-
familiar to Salt Lakers-J. b.
When the reporter, that Sunday after
noon. entered the hall named the fair
sized room and an adjoining apartment
were densely filled, and only after some
trouble could he secure an uncomfortable
seat in a corner OF the hall. There were
seated in dense rows innumerable women
and girls OF greater or less age. They
had taken the middle Of the hall. while
the men, old and young, in their brown
corduroy suits were sitting along the walls.
In the front OF the hall, around
a table covered with a white linen cloth,
were standing the preachers and recruit
ers, who, in imitation OF Old Testament
institutions, universally carry the name
OF Elders. On account OF the gathered
multitude the atmosphere OF the hall, the
windows and doors OF which We're tightly
closed, soon became inioerably heavy
and assumed that specific odor 50 well
adapted TO purposes OF conversation.
Many Of the mothers from the country
had bevies OF children sitting around
them, the little ones, who would now
and then interrupt the sacramento ser
vice with squallng, being held on their
danes laps. AS previously reported, the
Mormons have separate Sunday schools
in the country, and the mothers drag
their children who visit those schools
with them into conference. Close by
me sat little girl OF siCkly pale hue, who
sang as linnet in the hemp field, as
soon as female choir intone Mormon
songs No doubt that girl had learned
the songs in Sunday school.
In conference there was rarely to be
seen pretty or intelligent cOuntenance.
The reporter found the women mostly
| ugly and of gross forms, and among the
men were to be seen many visages on
which idiocy and mental contraCtedness
were written. This Mormon populace
appears to belong throughout to the very
poorest; most OF them have assuredly
seen few good days in their previous life,
and consequently the recruiting officers
have an easy thing OF it TO gain the poor,
benighted wretches for the sweet celes-
tial Kingdom on the Salt Lake.
The divine services opened with
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multitude sang, now girls choir,
then the elders blessed the bread
and water, which were handed out to the
faithful. Then followed sermons by the
Elders Hochstrasser, Monch CORNER
principal OF the Ogden Central school,
and now wanted for infraction OF the
Edmunds law. b. and Schoenfeld.
The preachers reject infant baptism and
teach that men and women, l. e., he and
she, candidates for baptism, must de-
scend into the waters to attain true kin
dred with the Heavenly Father Then
said one OF the preachers;
"You who are present and don't yet
belong to us, see that all these other men
and women are Mormons. We are
proud OF it. We are also proud OF the
prosecutions to which we are exposed
every true church is subject to suffering.
We are proud OF the warnings published
against us by the Bernese Government
in the city Adcertiser. Were the Project
OF the city a Mormon, he could not be
such, or he would be prosecuted"
Again, the three elders, with curiously
intertwined arms, blessed bread and
water for the Lords Supper, that it
might have power to eXtinguish sins and
heal the sick. This was followed by eX
hortation hymns, rendered in brisk time
by the girls choir. Then the few out
siders who had been attracted by mere
curiosity left. The faithful, however
more than u hundred people from the
country, remained, lovingly exchanging
gay chats with the elders, who We're vel
known to each and every one.
The foregoing gives faithful picture o
the simple way those gospel gathering,
were held in the seventies OF the Ole
World. Their very barrenness ant
absence OF pagan pomp and ecclesiastical
show form potent attraction to the un
sophisticated minds OF the poor, whit
deceive themselves by receiving the Gun
ming farces as resuscitations OF the apps
tolic agapes Glove ieasts'') of the Latter
day Saints. JrNIvs JrNoR.
OGDEN, Jan. %, 1887.